Publication

This interim report provides a sense of the early findings from the work of the Garnaut Review, shares ideas on work in progress as a basis for interaction with the Australian community, and indicates the scope of the work program through to the completion of the Review. The report states that Australia has an important role to play alongside its international partners in establishing a realistic approach to global climate mitigation. It states that in order to to be effective in contributing as much as possible to an effective global effort to avoid unacceptably high risks of dangerous climate change, soundly based domestic and international policies will need to be sustained steadily over long periods. The Review suggests a basis for steady long-term policy at Commonwealth and state levels, and for productive long-term Australian interaction with the international community on climate change policy.